Word: junctions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...landscape seen through the window in the portrait might well be the valley of the Guindy River running northeast to its junction with the Jaudy, with Tre-guier on the right bank of the Guindy and Plouguiel on the left...
Some of the veterans testimony concerned Operation Cedar Falls, during which about 40 square miles of the so-called Iron Triangle in Vietnam were cleared of "enemy" forces by bombing, artillery and infantry attacks. A former lieutenant in a unit that participated in Operation Junction City said that orders for the operation were that "villages, hamlets or any other signs of life were to be completely destroyed...
...General Samuel W. Koster for "dereliction of duty" for allowing war crimes to be committed under his command, and against Seaman for "conspiracy to commit war crimes" and for "dereliction of duty" for allowing his men to commit war crimes in 1967, with regard to Operations Cedar Falls and Junction City, which he planned and executed...
...State William Rogers told reporters that Lam Son would continue well into April, and perhaps until the start of the rainy season around May 1. After the assault on Tchepone, it was expected that Lam Son's troops would exercise an "option" to drive to a key junction ten miles to the southeast. There they were to have sliced up Route 914, an important and still intact trail route; disrupted Base Area 611, a key enemy supply depot; and swept home via the A Shau Valley, a longtime Communist strongpoint. What happened...
...combined Thai-Laotian force from Savannakhet, near the western border of the panhandle, was to have moved eastward along Route 9 to Muong Phine, another major junction and site of the main enemy supply caches. That force is only halfway to its destination and bucking heavy resistance...